http://blog.nigelpoulton.com/high-performing-storage/#utm_source=feed&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=feed with nigel poulton Tue, 20 Dec 2011 19:37:54 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 http://blog.nigelpoulton.com/high-performing-storage/comment-page-1/#comment-244 John Tue, 17 Jul 2007 13:01:00 +0000 http://blogs.rupturedmonkey.com/?p=108#comment-244 Does a flooded data centre count as exotic? Or just damp :) Does a flooded data centre count as exotic? Or just damp

]]> http://blog.nigelpoulton.com/high-performing-storage/comment-page-1/#comment-243 stephen2615 Sun, 15 Jul 2007 22:26:19 +0000 http://blogs.rupturedmonkey.com/?p=108#comment-243 I did some work on a Army tactical heavy landing ship once.  It was a very big cat so it probably was relatively stable which is why they threw all those systems into it.  All the racks were mounted on rubber feet to take the shock and vibration.      I seriously doubt that most storage arrays can handle being on warships as I saw some horrendous weather while I was in the NAVY.  Nothing more fun than the ship falling down the face of a 20 metre wave and then wondering if it will make it up the next wave.  The ship tends to have this horrible shudder at the bottom of huge waves that must do lots for high tech equipment.   When you can't walk two steps without slamming into different sides of the passageway, you have to wonder how disks handle that.  Another fun thing is starting to walk down a ladder and the ship disappears from under you and you end up falling 3 metres more often than not down the ladder.      I would be very interested in finding out what UNIX and storage systems were in "Communist Russia".  If they were US based companies, something would have been terribly wrong there.  Oddly enough my first UNIX system in 1987 was an ICL host.   As far as I was concerned, the commies could have taken them and no one would have minded.   Do storage marketing people actually know how to turn on an array and do day to day management of them in complex and sometimes difficult environments?       Stephen I did some work on a Army tactical heavy landing ship once.  It was a very big cat so it probably was relatively stable which is why they threw all those systems into it.  All the racks were mounted on rubber feet to take the shock and vibration. 
 
 
I seriously doubt that most storage arrays can handle being on warships as I saw some horrendous weather while I was in the NAVY.  Nothing more fun than the ship falling down the face of a 20 metre wave and then wondering if it will make it up the next wave.  The ship tends to have this horrible shudder at the bottom of huge waves that must do lots for high tech equipment.   When you can’t walk two steps without slamming into different sides of the passageway, you have to wonder how disks handle that.  Another fun thing is starting to walk down a ladder and the ship disappears from under you and you end up falling 3 metres more often than not down the ladder. 
 
 
I would be very interested in finding out what UNIX and storage systems were in "Communist Russia".  If they were US based companies, something would have been terribly wrong there.  Oddly enough my first UNIX system in 1987 was an ICL host.   As far as I was concerned, the commies could have taken them and no one would have minded.
 
Do storage marketing people actually know how to turn on an array and do day to day management of them in complex and sometimes difficult environments?  
 
 
Stephen

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